Rose 'Flower Carpet Pink' - Weeping Standard Rose Tree
Overview
Rose 'Flower Carpet Pink' Weeping Standard is a stunning ornamental rose that combines the robust beauty of groundcover roses with the elegant form of a standard tree. This eye-catching specimen creates a cascading waterfall effect of vibrant pink blooms that flow gracefully from its elevated crown, making it a perfect focal point for any garden setting.
Key Features
Flower Characteristics The rose produces masses of cheerful bright pink, semi-double flowers that measure approximately 5-6cm across. Each bloom features delicate, ruffled petals with a subtle fragrance that attracts beneficial pollinators throughout the flowering season. The flowers appear in generous clusters, creating an abundant display of colour from late spring through to the first frosts.
Growth Habit and Size This weeping standard typically reaches ~1.6 metres in height with a spread of 80cm to 1 metre. The cascading branches create a graceful umbrella-like canopy that flows downwards. The rose is grafted onto a sturdy rootstock, providing excellent stability and vigour.
Foliage The dense, glossy green foliage provides an attractive backdrop to the pink blooms. The leaves are naturally disease-resistant and maintain their healthy appearance throughout the growing season with minimal intervention.
Growing Requirements
Position and Soil Plant in a sunny to partially shaded location that receives at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily. The rose thrives in well-draining, fertile soil with a pH between 6.0-7.0. Ensure good air circulation around the plant to promote healthy growth and reduce disease risk.
Watering Water regularly during the growing season, particularly in dry spells. Apply water at the base of the plant rather than overhead to minimise leaf wetness. A deep weekly watering is preferable to frequent shallow watering.
Feeding Feed with a balanced rose fertiliser in early spring, followed by a second application in mid-summer. Mulch around the base with well-rotted compost or manure to retain moisture and provide ongoing nutrition.
Maintenance and Care
Pruning Prune in late winter or early spring before new growth begins. Remove any dead, diseased, or crossing branches, then lightly trim the weeping branches to maintain shape. Avoid heavy pruning as this can reduce flowering.
Disease Resistance The Flower Carpet series is renowned for its excellent disease resistance, particularly to black spot, powdery mildew, and rust. This makes it an ideal choice for gardeners seeking low-maintenance roses.
Winter Care Hardy in most UK conditions, this rose requires minimal winter protection. In extremely harsh areas, consider wrapping the graft union with horticultural fleece during severe frosts.
Garden Uses and Companion Planting
Landscape Applications Perfect as a specimen plant in mixed borders, formal rose gardens, or container displays on patios and terraces. The weeping form makes it excellent for creating height variation in garden designs.
Companion Plants Pairs beautifully with lavender, catmint, and ornamental grasses. Underplant with spring bulbs such as daffodils or tulips for extended seasonal interest. Silver-foliaged plants like artemisia or lamb's ear provide excellent contrast to the pink blooms.
Planting and Establishment
Best Planting Time Plant in autumn or early spring when the soil is workable and not frozen. Container-grown plants can be planted year-round, provided adequate watering is maintained.
Planting Method Dig a hole twice the width of the root ball and ensure the graft union (the swollen area where the rose meets the rootstock) is planted at soil level. Water thoroughly after planting and apply a 5cm layer of mulch around the base.
Why Choose This Rose
The Rose Flower Carpet Pink Weeping Standard offers the perfect combination of visual impact and practical benefits. Its disease resistance means less spraying and maintenance, whilst its continuous flowering habit provides months of garden colour. The unique weeping form adds architectural interest to any garden, making it suitable for both traditional and contemporary landscape designs.
This rose is particularly well-suited to busy gardeners who want maximum impact with minimum fuss, delivering reliable performance year after year with basic care.
Reasons to Buy Roses from Jacksons Nurseries
(1) ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot
Buy with confidence from the only online rose grower rated ‘Excellent’ 4.9* on Trustpilot. We have been a trusted supplier of roses for 3 generations. We take pride in growing our own roses in the field before potting them up, allowing for meticulous quality control to sale.
(2) Best Prices Guaranteed – Direct from the Grower
Save £££s by buying direct from a grower you can trust. We’ve already price checked all of our roses against competitors so you don’t have to. We are so confident we offer the best value, if you find a rose of the same type and grade elsewhere, we’ll beat it by 10%.
(3) 12 Month Plants Guarantee
We offer a 12 month guarantee on every plant that you buy from us that we have classified as Fully Hardy. If a plant you've bought from us fails in the first year, we will either replace it or refund you. See our satisfaction guarantee page for more details and conditions.
(4) Third generation family-owned nursery specialising in roses
Jackson’s Nurseries is a 3rd generation family owned business which has been growing roses for over 60 years. Roses have always been our specialty, as you can see from the colourful array of blooms in the background to the old family photo below. Today, we offer over 200 different varieties of floribundas, hybrid teas, patio, shrub and David Austin roses. Our roses are initially grown in the field before being potted up for website dispatch.
(5) Grown at altitude to produce strong, healthy plants
Our North Staffordshire nursery is situated at 250 metres above sea level, producing strong, hardy plants that will thrive in your garden. Our nursery sits on clay, so you can be sure our roses can handle heavy soil too.
(6) Help & Advice and Aftercare
We are help to help you with any help and advice you need in choosing, planting and growing your roses before, during and after your purchase from us. The help and advice section of our website has extensive information, see below some examples of articles you may find useful:
- Different types of roses and what they each mean
- Guide to climbing roses
- Guide to floribunda roses
- Guide to hybrid tea roses
- How to plant a climbing rose
- How to grow hybrid tea roses
How our roses are supplied through the seasons
All our roses are cultivated in an open field and are carefully dug up when the weather is optimal, typically in October or November. While other nurseries supply roses bare root, once our field-grown roses have been potted up we supply them freshly potted. This better protects the roots and helps keep them moist in transit, ensuring your roses arrive as healthy as when they left our nursery. So don’t be alarmed if the compost comes away from the roots when you remove them from the pot.
The roses can remain in their pots over the winter, as long as they are properly watered and fed, but it's best to plant them out as soon as possible. If you do plant them straight away make sure the planting mix is prepared first, hold the root close to the top of the hole as you tip the pot upside down and try to keep as much compost as possible from falling away. They will already be pruned, so no additional pruning is needed except for trimming any dead tips. Regular pruning can start in late winter, the year after planting.
Rose Types
Hybrid Tea Roses (HT)
Hybrid Tea roses are probably the most popular group of roses, available in both bush and standard form they have long flower stems and shapely blooms. Blooms are typically medium to large in size, with many petals which form a distinct central cone.
Floribunda Roses (FL)
Floribunda roses bears its flowers in clusters or trusses, with several blooms open at time in each truss. A popular choice the Floribunda rose group is unrivalled for colour, reliability and longevity as a bedding display however the flower form in generally inferior to the Hybrid Tea.
Patio Roses (PATIO)
Patio roses were introduced in the 1980’s and the group now contains several popular varieties. Generally low-growing roses that were once grouped with the Floribuna group but have now been put in their own group of compact versions. Usually growing about 50cm high they make excellent plants for patio containers or at the front of borders.
Climbing Roses (CLM)
Climbing roses as the name suggests are the perfect choice for covering a wall or screen. Often grouped together with Ramblers, Climbers tend to have stiffer stems, larger flowers but smaller trusses than Ramblers.
Rambling Roses (RAM)
Rambling roses are often grouped with Climbing Roses but the ramblers tend to have a more pliable stems that can be used to run along the soil to use as groundcover or can be used to make weeping standards.
Miniature Roses (MINI)
Miniature roses have increased in popularity in recent years due to their versatility, even grown indoors as temporary pot plants that grow to a maximum height of 40cm. An ideal choice for planting in tubs, edging beds and rockeries.
English Roses (ENG)
Often referred to as Austin or David Austin Roses, English roses are hybrids of old English roses and more modern varieties bread by David Austin to provide the best of both, mixing old rose shapes and scents with more modern colour range, compact habits and repeat flowering.
Planting Advice
Roses like a generous root space, so dig a deep hole approximately twice as wide as the current root system, preferably adding composted organic matter to the soil. Never plant into frozen soil – in winter, await a frost-free period. Carefully remove the pot and gently tease the roots apart to spread them around the hole. Position the plant so that the ‘bud point’ (the place where the shoots emerge from, where the cultivated rose was grafted onto the rootstock) is at soil level. Replace the soil, firming it down gently, then water copiously. Ideally, a general purpose fertiliser should be applied to the surrounding soil as a top dressing. We also highly recommend the use of Rose Rootgrow, which provides a friendly fungus that prevents ‘rose replant syndrome’.
Buying our Roses
Pot Size
Most of our roses are supplied in a 4 litre pot although this may vary slightly depending on rose variety. If the size of pot differes significatly from 4 litres then we will make this clear somewhere on the product page.
Seasonality
Our roses are grown outdoors and as such are subject to seasonal changes. As we sell potted stock throughout the year your rose may not arrive and look like you expect it to. If you are uncertain how your rose will arrive (especially if buying for a gift) then we suggest you contact us prior to making a purchase.
Freshly Potted
Each year a new batch of roses is potted up ready for the following season. Once potted (usually November/December time) they go on sale as 'Freshly Potted'. If you purchase a freshly potted rose and plant it soon after you will find that when removing the rose from the pot there will be a lot of loose soil as the roots will not have had time to grow and bind the compost.
Pruned/Cut Back
In autumn the majority of our roses have finished flowering and begin to look untidy, at this point we prune them quite hard in preparation for the following season. We continue to sell roses throughout the year, when a rose has been pruned in such a way we will identify it has being so. If you are not sure what to expect then please ask prior to making a purchase. Some garden centres/supermarkets sell stock that has been grown abroad or in poly-tunnels so they look 'picture perfect' out of season, while this is ideal for a gift they are short lived once planted.
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